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Pythagorean numerical acoustics

For the Pythagoreans the secret of the acoustics could be identified with the science of numbers and then the sound is length, speed and harmony derived from precise measurements such as the ratio of three to two, that is the third part of itself, used to divide the monochord and achieve the perfect fifth (C - - - G), the best consonance after that also too obvious of octave and therefore suitable to obtain the scale of sounds, then the fractions of other notes may also be calculated with squares, cubes and then other multiplications. Galilei that made extensive studies on Pythagoras argued that harmony depended on how the frequency of the sound beats on the eardrum and he had singled in the fifth a substantial consonance because linked to sweet a tinge of bitterness. Considerations of this kind are reflected on the whole melody, since a series of sounds ordered and rhythmic should always be consonants.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 01, 2016 n°: 3033
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Water purified from millions of good bacteria

What happens in the gut due to the positive action undertaken by bacteria that make up the microbiome and the bacterial flora helping to maintain healthy the organism and to counter the diseases could occur even in normal drinking water, at least according to Swedish researchers that using DNA sequencing and flow cytometry would have discovered in the water a kind of ecosystem that until now had remained unknown. In practice these bacteria and other microbes grow in water treatment plant and also in the water pipes forming a thin layer of sticky biofilm purifying the water, something like what happens in the gut when the foods are partly predigested. The research was carried out in southern Sweden, but bacteria and biofilms are present in plumbing and taps all around the world; moreover this finding could be useful for checking the composition and water quality.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 30, 2015 n°: 3032
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Light and shadow on climate change agreements

While some celebrating the success of the Paris Summit COP21 which led to an historic agreement among virtually all countries responsible for pollutant emissions and the greenhouse effect, which aims to limit the rise in global temperatures below two degrees tending to a degree and a half, others contend the weakness of this pact since the green initiatives are only on a voluntary basis, and the strong economic interests represented in the congress may have played a role regard this. On the other hand every five years there will be a check on the results achieved; moreover, have been allocated sums to compensate poor countries that have been affected by climate change. It is hoped that this agreement bring countries to the turning point regarding the use of polluting fossil fuels with a fast transition to renewable and sustainable energy distribution in the planet.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 14, 2015 n°: 3019
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Air in Beijing that removes the forces

After three days of smog unbearable for the people the authorities decided to declare for the first time a red alert about air pollution (the highest level) with a series of drastic action to try to lower the particulate matter PM 2.5 that reached in some areas almost one housand micrograms per cubic meter; so factories and schools closed, stop the constructions and works outdoors, alternating plates for cars with increased public transportation, flexible hours of work as well as public warnings of caution. The air from the testimonials is unbreathable what is clear from even wearing mask and uncomfortable situation reaches to miss the forces, although it is not first time the metropolis by twenty-two and a half million inhabitants encounter a situation like that for this city known for the victims and hospitalizations from pollution as well as reduced visibility.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 09, 2015 n°: 3015
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Platonic written with Pythagoreans terms

A written discourse is not comparable in effectiveness to the oral dialectic based on the Socratic maieutic and the knowledge; moreover according to Plato (427 - 347 BC) was never written a speech of great quality and reliability both in the case of rhythmic prose, verse or in the case of written aiming to persuade according to a whole series of stratagems, rather than to teach. The best written should help the memory of those who already know with arguments concerning ideal values such as the Good, the Right and that can really learn and then come to write in the soul with clarity, completeness and reliability texts. Regarding the writer shouldn't be called wise, not suitable for the man who basically only knows not to know, but philosopher (a term coined by Pythagoras) content to try to search the True without ever bringing and continuing always to try.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 20, 2015 n°: 3000
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Lot of toxic foam in Bangalore in India

The population of Bangalore in India has doubled in twenty years without the purifiers have been adjusted as a result of the artificial lakes of the periphery of this great technological city became some sort of toxic slurry dumps and in particular the Bellandur Lake, over three and a half kilometres square located at the base of this chain of lakes, has been measured high levels of toxic pollutants so that contact with the skin for a few seconds will cause irritation. Foam is released by the toxic slurry and sometimes swells and reaches the streets making dangerous the driving, then the population living near the lake complains about headache and other health problems in addition to skin irritations and also occurred due to high concentrations on the surface of flammable chemicals that the lake water has released flames burning for three days.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 10, 2015 n°: 2965
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Little chance of escape for the hungry in Syria

The chance to leave Syria and escape the ravages of the war apparently is reserved for people who can afford spending quite remarkable amount of money for travel by illegals that varies depending on the destination and often is scheduled using Internet and Smartphones (for routes there is a thriving market), but according to international organizations the most vulnerable in Syria living in large communities composed of tented camps have no chance of escape and suffer from hunger. One reason why many seek in every way to leave Syria is the lack of food; in fact the country is effectively blocked since by 2011 when the civil war broke out and no resources are readily available, then funds were reduced for those concerned with providing food and assistance to vulnerable people in Syria so that the majority of them can have only about fifty cents per day.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 10, 2015 n°: 2938
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Sea levels really getting higher

Cities such as Tokyo and Singapore may disappear in the future due to the continuous rise in sea levels, at least according to the claims of American researchers who calculated the rise of one meter in one to two centuries, while already now since 1992 on average were found globally in eight centimeters more due to about a third of global warming of the oceans, for a third for melting of polar ice caps and the remaining third by the melting glaciers of the mountains. In the past there had been some controversy over exaggerated data about the weather forecast on sea rising and other significant environmental changes, but the latest satellite observations would seem to confirm the figures exaggerated and also concerning the trend in global temperatures is not very positive, and then (if not treated promptly and with determination) could have the worst climate scenario for the planet.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 28, 2015 n°: 2927
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A reminder to Hypatia

In 415 the famous and charming thinker Hypatia was abducted by force from a cart in Alexandria of Egypt by a group of Christians who tore eyes, then the body was to pieces and burnt because accused of pitting the Governor of Alexandria against them; not clear in this horrifying crime the responsibilities of the rude Bishop Cyril (up to a maximum of the altars) defined authoritarian and intolerant and so even if he not directly attend to the event some claim that riot was not alien to the vicissitude. Ipazia, called depending also from the pronunciation Hypatia, daughter of the mathematician and astronomer Theon of Alexandria was a woman of extraordinary culture of understated beauty that had opened a school of philosophy in Alexandria on Platonic-Aristotelian model; Unfortunately there came his writings, but we know that was equipped with considerable intellect.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 27, 2015 n°: 2926
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Destroyed a temple of Palmyra

The publication of photos documenting the procedures for destroying a temple built in 17 AD, dedicated to the deity Baalshamin (competitor of Bel for the ancient Palmyrens) and the testimonies of residents leave little doubt about what happened and then as defined by international organizations was a loss not only for Syria but for all humanity. Palmyra before the conflict broke out in March 2011 was visited by over one hundred and fifty thousand tourists each year, then the so called Pearl of the desert has been targeted for war propaganda with destruction of statues and the barbaric killing of a chief archaeologist who was trying to protect priceless artifacts. According to legend, Solomon founded the city of Tadmor in the land of Palm trees which became the important commercial city of Palmyra independent until the first century AD and then conquered by Rome that he also enlarged the now-destroyed temple.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 26, 2015 n°: 2925
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Urine test for pancreatic cancer

A kind of protein signature of pancreatic cancer would be found by British researchers in the urine of individuals who might get sick of this malignant disease that leaves little hope of survival, since apparently if diagnosed too late (as is happen most of the time) only a three percent of patients are still alive five years after diagnosis; so this would be an important step to widen the window of opportunity for intervention in the early stages though more studies are needed above all to identify the genes responsible for pancreatic cancer. This simple urine test to trace the presence of three specific proteins would be ninety percent reliable and if malignant disease is identified when the tumor is small the hopes of survival are over of the sixty percent, while decreases really quickly if delay to intervene.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 07, 2015 n°: 2909
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Dutch in average a little less obese

Despite a high standard of living also in terms of food consumption seems that the Dutch are a little less obese than other populations in Europe and according to international organisations the percentage of obese in 2030 will be just about eight and a half, and then in a near future will be considered in good shape at least comparison of the Irish, population for which is expected about a fifty percent of obese. Everyone knows that the Dutch do a great use of bicycles, a popular medium with which to travel a pair of kilometers a day, but calculating that burn in average only sixty calories on that distance perhaps is not the secret of this population; then apparently the data used for this study were not just recent, however it seems that the authorities concerned the obesity problem with strategies aimed at different levels of intervention.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 13, 2015 n°: 2862
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Strong destructive earthquake in Nepal

A strong earthquake of 7.9 magnitude enough shallow hit Nepal and neighbouring states and in New Delhi in India buildings have trembled for over a minute, is talk of more than two thousand five hundred victims for a provisional balance and with great difficulty for the authorities in emergency management (with appeals to the order for the population) also for to transport the injured in hospitals that are collapsing and without medicines. Uneasiness over the collapse of the beautiful Dharahara tower in Kathmandu while visitors lined up climbed the stairs to admire the landscape and thereby causing over two hundred and fifty casualties, damaged other landmarks. This is the strongest earthquake that hit Nepal by eight decades after that of 8.3 magnitude of 1934 which caused over eight thousand five hundred victims; moreover, due to the earthquake some avalanches have overwhelmed the hikers on Mount Everest causing several casualties.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 26, 2015 n°: 2819
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Solar energy rising and lower production costs

Solar energy costs are coming down gradually and in some areas of the globe is cheaper to produce energy from the Sun than that produced using the derived from processing of oil, gas, coal and nuclear power; so much so that sales of photovoltaic solar modules in 2014 grew a twenty percent, and then is expect a further improvement in the coming years to achieve by 2020 a four percent of global energy needs from solar panels. It seems that one of the problems to be overcome is the unfair practice to economic level of China that would undermine the other manufacturer of photovoltaic solar modules with various incentives in order to dominate the world market selling at prices below cost (considering also the components). Keep in mind that Italy could take advantage in cost/production thanks of the natural favorable condition from good exposure to the Sun.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 22, 2015 n°: 2739
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